"Timing" (A N T I T H E S I S BluntOne AWON song)

AWON, BluntOne and A N T I T H E S I S ” Timing” cover (cropped)

“Timing” is a collaboration between A N T I T H E S I S, a piano project by Georgii Speakman and Phil Lewis, BluntOne and rapper AWON. Speakman and Lewis have crafted for the song a spare piano line that starts simple and crescendos into more emphatic emotional spaces alongside a horn part that is melancholic, moody and accents the reflective tones and tempos throughout. It sounds like a perfect melding of downtempo hip-hop, modern classical music and jazz between its repeating figure acting like a sample in real time in the beat. AWON raps through the song a tale of wanting to live up to responsibilities to the people that make it possible for him to pursue his art with integrity and support and the fears born of uncertainty and the pressure to succeed being both exciting and threatening to undermine what can feel like an edifice when you’re hampered ever so slightly by a touch of impostor’s syndrome. But amid that wave of doubt, at the beginning of the song, we hear that burgeoning trust in self that will hopefully carry the day when you know you’re on the right path and the creative work you’re doing is solid and not you and your friends simply pumping each other up as friends and collaborators do in faking until you make it. You hear the hints of someone who has been down that path and now doesn’t trust it and instead feels tentative as a defense against wishful thinking and the way that can compromise your work. Listen to “Timing” on Spotify, connect with A N T I T H E S I S at the links below and keep a look out for the project’s new album A N T I T H E S I S Vol. 1, Pt. 3.